Just a little preview of the Central Regional teams
Seed Team Record AVG OBP SLG ERA OAVG Run Diff/Game
1 Illinois Wesleyan 33-9 .335 .411 .491 4.46 .263 +2.1
2 UW-Stevens Point 28-14 .331 .433 .544 4.11 .263 +2.7
3 Augustana 32-11 .352 .434 .545 4.84 .284 +1.4
4 Wartburg 26-13 .310 4.09 .250 +2.2
5 Linfield 30-10 .307 .396 .464 2.93 .230 +2.5
6 Webster 28-13 .347 .441 .543 4.69 .265 +2.1
Note: Wartburg's stats had no OBP or SLG but they had a normal amount of walks and hit for little power.
Top Pitchers (no order)
Kulavic (IWU) 6-0 1.63 ERA 55.1 IP 56/9 K/BB
Aronson (IWU) 7-0 3.38 ERA 72.0 IP 68/16 K/BB
Thrun (UWSP) 5-3 2.96 ERA 67.0 IP 45/16 K/BB
Nix (UWSP) 8-3 4.97 ERA 58.0 IP 45/29 K/BB
Pagano (Augie) 4-1 3.59 ERA 62.2 IP 53/20 K/BB
Saeugling(W'burg) 5-0 1.83 ERA 44.1 IP 32/12 K/BB
Linfield Top 4 (Clark, McCulley, Dorn, Larson) 28-8 2.59-3.38 ERAs
Hilliard(Webster) 5-1 2.91 ERA 46.1 IP 40/12 K/BB
Meuller(Webster) 8-0 3.36 ERA 59.0 IP 38/27 K/BB
Top Hitters (no order)
Angel (IWU) .356/.459/.644 11 HR 66 RBI
Ladd (IWU) .393/.447/.518 1 HR 41 RBI
Coe (UWSP) .421/.534/.814 15 HR 56 RBI
Wagle (Augie) .426/.485/.739 10 HR 59 RBI
Blakeley (Augie) .390/.452/.554 25 SB 35 RBI
Saeugling(W'burg) .366 3 HR 31 RBI
Martijn(W'burg) .395 6 HR 26 RBI
Van Cleave(Linfield) .367/.438/.594 4 HR 38 RBI
Fuiten(Webster) .451/.564/.782 12 HR 52 RBI
Raetzloff(Webster) .390/.495/.786 11 HR 42 RBI
To me, this seems to be a very competitive regional. I think any of the top 5 can win it but I definitely wouldn't put it past Webster to pull an upset or two. IWU has a great pitching duo that could put them in a great position after two games. What really stands out to me were the stats on the top 4 Linfield starting pitchers. Without knowing the strengths of all the schedules it's hard to completely compare these numbers but I just though they'd be interesting to look at and give us all a few names to keep an eye on while following the games.